There are painful flaws in our conversations about small church worship. Dressed up, they sound like this:
• Small congregations don’t really have what is needed for quality worship. At best, they fumble through it.
• Their music doesn’t measure up. • The preaching is weak. It’s not entirely their fault (bless their hearts).
• They struggle without adequate expertise, or vision, or resources to consistently pull off powerful worship.
• Oh, yes, and we are exhausted at the endless task of trying to fill in the holes for them.
But what if author Teresa Stewart told you that small congregations have powerful advantages in offering worship-deeply forming strengths that are not generally available in big settings? She will.
And what if our current approach to small congregations largely strips these powerful strengths and replaces them with putty and paint to better imitate worship in large congregations? Stewart will remind you that it does.
The author writes that it is worth the messy exploration to find another way...a conversation. In The Small Church Advantage, author Teresa Stewart offers lessons that remind small congregations they are not “less than” anything. She reminds readers of the strengths of the small church and leads them through a process of using those strengths as an advantage.
